Earth from space--I hope without drones...

No eye in the sky

The Danger Room once again is our source for the news that a chopper drone, rather ridiculously named the Hummingbird, will not be deployed  in Afghanistan anytime soon.

Terminator Planet

Not very long at all after I decided to start this blog, I got an email from the excellent TomDispatch.com that its editor Tom Engelhardt and co-author Nick Turse have published a new book on the subject. It's called Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050. You can get it HERE.

I haven't read it yet, but that's no reason why you shouldn't.

The U.N. ain't happy

A new article in Slate, U.N. Questions Obama's Use of Drone Strikes , shows us just how unhappy the international community is with current White House drone strike policies.   

It seems that the moment is now

And now, a place to voice your OPINION on the matter.

Drones in the U.S.

As promised, the segment from Rachel Maddow's show the other day, hosted by Ezra Klein:

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Drone Off--an introduction

There are probably very few people in the world who need to start a new blog less than I do, but the truth is, I've been thinking about doing this one for awhile. Tonight, I saw a good piece on drones on the Rachel Maddow show and though it turns out that I can't link to it yet, it kind of pushed me over some line of indecision about this. I'll get it up here soon, but one of the startling statistics it presented revealed that most of the world is against drones and the majority of America is for them. Call me an internationalist then, because those things creep me out. A lifetime of science fiction movies should have convinced people of my central tenet here: drones are not our friends. Here are a couple of Danger Room links to get us started.

U.S. Military Wants Drones in South America, But Why?

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on U.S. Soil

Feel free to comment, and dissenting views are welcome, but if you're mean to other people here, I shall use my dronelike capacity to delete you.